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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Amit Gud <amitgud1@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@osdl.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove union u from linux/fs.h
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 14:10:15 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041020131015.GB20287@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2c59f00304102002135ca68dd0@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 02:43:59PM +0530, Amit Gud wrote:
> Do we need the foolish-looking union with just single entry (void
> *generic_ip) in the struct inode linux/fs.h anymore? Why not remove
> it?
> 
> This patch does that along with the changes in other parts of the
> kernel that references the union. Its compile-tested and applies
> cleanly to 2.6.9 vanilla.

I don't think we shoould do such purely cosmetic changes that break backwards
compatibility during stable series.


  reply	other threads:[~2004-10-20 13:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-20  9:13 Amit Gud
2004-10-20 13:10 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2004-10-20 13:28   ` Amit Gud
2004-10-20 14:53   ` David Woodhouse
2004-10-21  6:41     ` Amit Gud

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